Crime and Punishment: The Death Penalty / The Story of Capital Punishment
- Episode aired Apr 5, 2011
The history of capital punishment, including the protocol of public execution and the science of hanging. Archive information reveals the offences that resulted in the gallows and how childr... Read allThe history of capital punishment, including the protocol of public execution and the science of hanging. Archive information reveals the offences that resulted in the gallows and how children as young as seven were hanged.The history of capital punishment, including the protocol of public execution and the science of hanging. Archive information reveals the offences that resulted in the gallows and how children as young as seven were hanged.
Denis Lawson
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
Vic Gatrell
- Self - Historian, Caius College, Cambridge
- (as Prof. Vic Gattrell)
Robert Blecker
- Self - New York Law School
- (as Prof. Robert Blecker)
Emma Griffin
- Self - Historian, University of East Anglia
- (as Dr. Emma Griffin)
Albert Pierrepoint
- Self - Hangman - Speaking in 1982
- (archive footage)
Peter Rawlinson
- Self - Interviewee, 'Panorama' Debate on Capital Punishment
- (archive footage)
- (as Sir Peter Rawlinson MP)
Leslie Hale
- Self - Interviewee, 'Panorama' Debate on Capital Punishment
- (archive footage)
- (as Leslie Hale MP)
Geoffrey Robertson
- Self - Barrister
- (as Geoffrey Robertson QC)
David Garland
- Self - Sociologist, New York University
- (as Prof. David Garland)
